Tony Blair's parting speech to UK media

Apart from the comment that the UK press is "a feral beast, just tearing people and reputation to bits", the part of Tony Blair's parting speech to UK media that stood out for me was the complaint that "there will often be as much interpretation of what a politician is saying, as there is coverage of them actually saying it."

The unsurprising implication seems to be that the Prime Minisiter would prefer the press simply to record unedited the pronouncements of politicians without scrutinising their meaning, motives or implications. Happily, the wonders of digital reporting, unconstrained by the time/space constraints of print, radio or broadcast TV, allow us to do both: and so here is the aggregated media coverage from Google; here on memeorandum a selection of bloggers scrutinising both the speech and the subsequent commentary; here on the BBC news site the public having their say; and here (as apparently requested) is simply the full text of the speech at the TimesOnline.